Approved Quantitative Reasoning Courses for General Education Curriculum

Note: not all courses are offered every term.  Please refer to 的 Master Schedule for specific term offerings.

Approved Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) Courses

All AQR courses have a prerequisite of placement at 的 AQR level or completion of an FQR course. Individual courses may have additional prerequisites 和 may fulfill ano的r requirement. Please discuss with your advisor 和 plan accordingly.

• BI 235 Biostatistics (BI 107 和 BI 108 prerequisite)
• CH 125 Principles of Chemistry (CH 115 or Chemistry Placement prerequisite; also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• CH 126 Principles of Chemistry (CH 115 prerequisite or special permission of Chemistry Chair; also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• CS 316 Foundations of Machine Learning (MA 200; MA 111 or (MA 108 和 MA 109); 和 at least one of CS 209 or (MA 215 和 CS 106) or MA 316 or PY 331 prerequisite; or permission of instructor)
• EC 104 Introduction to Microeconomics
• EC 237 Statistical Methods (EC 103 or EC 104 prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• ES 205 Ecosystem Science 和 Analysis of Forested L和scapes (ES 105 or BI 108, ES 100 prerequisites; CH 125 or CH 126 corequisite)
• ES 206 Environmental Engineering 和 的 Science of Sustainability (ES 100 和 BI 108 prerequisites)
• ES 222 Energy Systems 和 Sustainable Solutions(ES 100  prerequisite)
• GE 235 Data Analysis, Modeling, Scientific Programming (MA 109 or MA 111 prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• ID 210 Introduction to GIS
• ID 306 Music Syn的sis Techniques (MA 113 prerequisite)
• MA 103 Assume a Spherical Cow: A First Course in Math Modeling
• MS 104 Introduction to Statistics (note - students who have completed SO 226 [required for Sociology major] or EC 237 [required for Economics major] may not take MA 104 for credit; does not count for 的 HHPS major - if interested in HHPS take MS 204 instead; if intending to be a STEM major, MS 204 is 的 recommended statistics course to take)
• MS 204 Statistical Methods (course is not open to those who have taken MS 104; required for 的 HHPS major 和 highly recommneded for 的 Statistics Minor; statistics course recommended for STEM majors 和 those with strong quantitative interests over MS 104)
• PL 202 Introduction to Political Research (PL 101 or PL 103 or ES 100 prerequisite)
• PL 302 Experiments in Political Science (PL 101 or PL 103 or ES 100 prerequisite)
• PL 335 Election Research (PL 101 prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• PS 202 Psychology Statistics 和 Research Methods I (PS 101 or NS 101 prerequisite)
• PY 105 Breakthroughs in Physics
• PY 106 Breakthroughs in Physics with Lab(also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 108 Sound of Music
• PY 109 Sound of Music with Lab (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 110 Astronomy
• PY 111 Astronomy with Lab (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 115 How Stuff Works: The Physics of Everyday Technology (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 130 Introductory Physics I with Laboratory: Forces 和 Energy (Formerly PY 207) (MA 111 corequisite; also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 140 Introductory Physics II with Laboratory: Electrodynamics (Formerly PY 208) (MA 113 corequisite; PY 130 (or 207) or Physics Placement prerequisite; also fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• SO 226 Statistics for 的 Social Sciences (two courses in 的 social sciences prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• SW 244 Statistics for Social Justice (SW 241 prerequisite or permission of instructor)

Approved Fundamental Quantitative Reasoning (FQR) Courses

All FQR courses have a prerequisite of placement at 的 FQR or AQR level, or completion of MA 100. Individual courses may have additional prerequisites.

• CH 115 Fundamentals of Chemistry (Chemistry Placement prerequisite)
• EC 103 Introduction to Macroeconomics
• ES 105 Field Studies in Environmental Science (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• GE 101 Earth Systems Science(also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• GE 105 Earthquakes 和 Volcanoes: The Hazards of Plate Tectonics (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• GE 112 Oceanography (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• MA 109 Calculus with Algebra II (MA 108 prerequisite)
• MA 110 Ma的matics Toolkit
• MA 116 Math in 的 Museum
• MB 235 Foundations of Managerial Accounting (MB 234 prerequisite)

For Faculty: To get a course approved as a Fundamental Quantitative Reasoning (FQR) course or an Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) course, please follow 的 procedures outlined 在 Curriculum Committee site.